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Watch “No One Listens; Everyone Hears” – The Media Story of Nestor Aparicio, WNST and Baltimore Positive

Nestor Aparicio

Part biography, part civic documentary, this film uncovers the uncompromising journey of Nestor Aparicio—journalist, truth-teller, and founder of Baltimore Positive. Through battles with institutions, personal setbacks, and a stubborn commitment to his hometown, “No One Listens; Everyone Hears” shows what happens when one person refuses to stop believing in Baltimore.

NBC horse racing insider Randy Moss educates Nestor about Preakness future and Triple Crown in peril

Baltimore Positive

In our search to bring real information and horse racing history and insights regarding the current spring mess, as the Preakness and the state of Maryland go to war with the big boys at Churchill, NYRA and Fox reagrding the perilous future of the Triple Crown and its significance to the sport, we turn to lifer track man and journalist Randy Moss to educate us and present the reality of the industry.

The real value of sports to these billionaires

Baltimore Positive

We always learn a ton of new information about leagues, franchises and ownership value and values whenever we invite Kurt Badenhausen of Sportico to give Nestor the new math of Orioles and Ravens franchise valuations and the upcoming MLB ownership risk that David Rubenstein and Michael Arougheti have taken in with a sport without a labor and cost certainty compass.

The future of the Baltimore Orioles and the men making the decisions

Baltimore Positive

With the MLB trade deadline deals of Mike Elias behind us and the labor war ahead, Allen McCallum and Nestor recap the departure of Adley Rutschman and have a tough discussion about the Orioles here-and-now with fans and how this next eight weeks leads to a lot of uncertainty in Baltimore and all around the industry of baseball.

How to teach a six-year old about baseball while watching the 2026 Orioles play…

Baltimore Positive

We’re all watching the Baltimore Orioles and trying to figure out the salary cap, labor and the trade machinations of Mike Elias. Meanwhile, our pal Zach Dermer is just trying to introduce his kids to the game. Our HVAC and plumbing friend at The Comfort Guys joins Nestor at Costas Timonium on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to talk Birdland summer problems and the rules of the game.

Let’s get the facts about this Preakness and Triple Crown fiasco from the top down

Baltimore Positive

After witnessing and opining on the entire state of horse racing and the sport in Maryland over the past 35 years on the radio regarding its complete deterioration, Nestor Aparicio only really trusts one voice about the sport of kings: Dick Jerardi. His one time colleague in 1984 has gone off to Philadelphia to become one of the legendary horse racing insiders in the sport and attempts to calm his now-much-older-and-more-cynical friend down about very rational Preakness and Triple Crown concerns as Pimlico goes to war with Churchill and Belmont, and NBC and Fox square off and Wes Moore is holding press conferences. Get the truth here…

Did our American World Cup runneth over with riches for FIFA?

Baltimore Positive

The World Cup came to the United States of America for the first time in 32 years this summer. Sports business professor Marty Conway tells Nestor, it won’t be that long before the world’s biggest sports tournament returns to our shores. And, of course, Professor Conway brings the heat for MLB as the labor wars start to heat up in a familiar refrain of billionaires vs. millionaires with the fans paying the freight.

elias

Orioles reinforce tone deaf approach to fans with Rutschman Black Monday 2026 selloff

Baltimore Positive

Did the Baltimore Orioles throw in the towel on the 2026 season on Monday? Probably. But as Luke Jones and Nestor point out, this current project of Mike Elias isn’t working at any level and the haul for Adley Rutschman plus the other deals with Dean Kremer, Taylor Ward and Tyler Wells have certainly disgusted what’s left the of Orioles fan base. Another selloff; different ownership. Does anyone know what they’re doing at The Warehouse?

Understanding the upcoming MLB labor war and history of billionaires vs. millionaires

Baltimore Positive

No one will be covering the battle after the World Series quite like Evan Drellich of The Athletic, who gives a full primer and overview of the upcoming MLB labor war with the MLBPA and the Orioles’ role in the battle of billionaires vs. millionaires that many expect to greatly impact the business of baseball immediately following the season, if not already in some markets.

Stretching back with a chiropractic conversation of care for a lifetime

Baltimore Positive

For the 28th anniversary of WNST as an AM radio behemoth here in Baltimore and returning from the Home Run Derby, Nestor welcomes back, back, back his neighbor and chiropractor Dr. Steve Elliott to Pizza John’s in Essex on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to discuss spines and necks and great chiropractic health in Towson with Nestor.

Philly vs. Bmore: Fighting from a city of brotherly love when the Phanatic passion migrates through sports history

Baltimore Positive

The rich history but lack of any real rivalry between Philadelphia and Baltimore continues this week as the Phillies bring their fan base and passion to Camden Yards and will fill the Inner Harbor with tourist dollars in visiting the Orioles. Fresh back from two days at the All Star Game in Philaldelphia, Nestor welcomes old sports executive pal and Baltimore native Micah Buchdahl back to test the waters of Charm City sports history and a Camden Yards visit with friends and family colliding in his twisted fate of professional sports. This guy once roomed with Charlie Eckman on the road and ran an indoor soccer franchise in the MISL…

Dear Catie Griggs: Tell us more about who this “fan experience” is designed for at Camden Yards?

Nestor Aparicio

Two months ago, you shook my hand all doe-eyed, took my Baltimore Positive business card at a local networking function that I actively participate in with a great group of community folks monthly, somehow believably feigned that “we’d be in touch” – I took you at your word – and then your bush league team sent along ridiculously insincere replies (or none at all) and your mostly unprofessional Lieutenants have all lined up to pretend that I don’t exist or that my questions on behalf of your fans are somehow irrelevant. I’m here holding a mirror up for you. That’s my role. You hold the power; I hold it accountable. Always…

The dream of an ice cream playground in Seven Valleys

Baltimore Positive

Our webmaster and activist extraordinaire Jessica Valis joined Nestor at Pizza John’s in Essex on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to discuss the history of Baltimore ice cream and its roots in her community just over the line in Southern Pennsylvania, where she’s leading an effort to build an ice cream playground for the kids in her hometown of tremendous delicious tradition from the farms to locals’ bellies. I scream, you scream…

Kenny Cooper on the agony of England defeat and importance of American soccer emergence during this World Cup

Baltimore Positive

We hoped to have legendary Blast Hall of Fame head coach Kenny Cooper on right after England won its way into the World Cup final but Lionel Messi and one of the greatest victories in recent memory turned this conversation into a beautifully wistful journey from when he arrived and what the game of soccer has become in the United States of America since those glorious days at the Baltimore Civic Center. And did you know that Coops once played on a team with Pele for three weeks?

#ColumnNes I’ve seen enough: It’s time to fire Mike Elias

Nestor Aparicio

I know, I know. The MLB Draft is coming. It’s midseason. There are big deadline deals that will need to be made in July. Blah, blah, blah. Plenty of reasons to just let Mike Elias stay warm in his rented seat and not rock the franchise boat. But I’ve seen enough to know he’s not going to survive – and shouldn’t – so I would make the move now and adjust.

Karson Kamenetz brings his family history and campaign message to District 4 in Baltimore County

Baltimore Positive

His father Kevin served as Baltimore County Executive and was on the campaign trail with an attempt to become Governor of Maryland when he tragically died in 2018, so it’s not a huge surprise that youthful Karson Kamenetz would be dipping his toes into the political realm with a run at the county council seat at stake in the 4th District on the northwest side of the beltway. We discuss what is important to contituents in our area right now like traffic, crime and affordability. And the power and expectations of his family name.

Ivan Bates: On law, order, people, process and prosecution in Baltimore City

Baltimore Positive

Are the streets of Baltimore City safer than they were a decade ago? Peace and progress in our city continues to be a daily effort for Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates, who joins Nestor at Faidley’s at Lexington Market to discuss youth crime, accountability and the challenges of the juvenile system while getting the repeat offenders off the street to make the city safer.

Dyer discusses Baltimore County Executive job and campaign

Baltimore Positive

Republican candidate for Baltimore County Executive Patrick Dyer tells Nestor why he’s running for Baltimore County Executive at Costas Inn at Timonium Racetrack on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour as we prepare for state wide primary elections on June 23rd here in Maryland.

Finding the summer yoga groove to bend and shift with those new business challenges ahead

Baltimore Positive

By day, Cate Paris is the Accelerent Regional Vice President, moving business development, networking and relationships forward but she’s been moonlighting on the internet recently with @CateDoesYoga on Instagram and brought her bendy mojo tips to Nestor at Sorrento of Arbutus as infinite flexibility continues to be the goal of the Maryland Crab Cake Tour and Baltimore Positive. We bend so we don’t break…

And suddenly, it’s go time for America and a real World Cup

Baltimore Positive

We couldn’t think of any more immersed guest to bring us the full scope of the pending World Cup in North America than lifer soccer insider Steven Goff of Yahoo, who joins Nestor on eve of Copa Mundial with the good, bad and hideous of the FIFA thugs coming to your town and putting on the greatest sports spectacle and tournament on earth.

Dear John Harbaugh: The long fraud of your goodbye and $oft landing in The Big Apple

Nestor Aparicio

I’ve blessed myself with 60 days to give your rather abrupt departure here some time to fully decant – like a hair-raising, pellet gun plum Ravens vintage – and smelling that musty, stale aroma and a hint of that rancid taste in the mouth you get when someone leaves town wearing a smile that doesn’t quite match the damage they did on the way out. “What do you want me to tell the other humans I know when they ask me about you?”

What took Nestor so long to get to Arbutus?

Baltimore Positive

Our friend, sponsor and consigliere Bill Cole of Cole Roofing considers the Sorrento of Arbutus cheesesteak and crinkle cut fries a legitimate food group in his locally-based business so when Nestor got the invite to do the Maryland Crab Cake Tour near his Worldwide HQ in Southwest Baltimore, this one got tasty and spicy. But, shrimp on a cheesesteak? What’s going on over there…

The life and legacy of Natasha Guynes and HER Resiliency

Baltimore Positive

In the aftermath of an unspeakable tragedy within the charity and community space in Baltimore, our pal Andy Kobus of United Rentals joins Nestor to discuss HER Resiliency legacy and difficulty of the tragic loss of founder and sexual assault survivor Natasha Guynes and its impact on her mission.

Can the Angry Birds live to fight another day in this pennant race against Toronto Luke Sept 13

The slow heating and fast cooling of Orioles bats has thrown us a summer chill

Baltimore Positive

Our guy Zach Dermer of The Comfort Guys has been Birdwatching along with every other baseball fan in the area as the Baltimore Orioles continue to disappoint on the field as they play late into the night on the West Coast. When will Gunnar Henderson burn as hot as your HVAC unit on a summer scorcher? Time to pitch in some orange therapy for all of us…

No One Listens Aparicio Nestor Nasty

Watch “No One Listens; Everyone Hears” – The Media Story of Nestor Aparicio, WNST and Baltimore Positive

Nestor Aparicio

Part biography, part civic documentary, this film uncovers the uncompromising journey of Nestor Aparicio—journalist, truth-teller, and founder of Baltimore Positive. Through battles with institutions, personal setbacks, and a stubborn commitment to his hometown, “No One Listens; Everyone Hears” shows what happens when one person refuses to stop believing in Baltimore.

NBC horse racing insider Randy Moss educates Nestor about Preakness future and Triple Crown in peril

Baltimore Positive

In our search to bring real information and horse racing history and insights regarding the current spring mess, as the Preakness and the state of Maryland go to war with the big boys at Churchill, NYRA and Fox reagrding the perilous future of the Triple Crown and its significance to the sport, we turn to lifer track man and journalist Randy Moss to educate us and present the reality of the industry.

The real value of sports to these billionaires

Baltimore Positive

We always learn a ton of new information about leagues, franchises and ownership value and values whenever we invite Kurt Badenhausen of Sportico to give Nestor the new math of Orioles and Ravens franchise valuations and the upcoming MLB ownership risk that David Rubenstein and Michael Arougheti have taken in with a sport without a labor and cost certainty compass.

The future of the Baltimore Orioles and the men making the decisions

Baltimore Positive

With the MLB trade deadline deals of Mike Elias behind us and the labor war ahead, Allen McCallum and Nestor recap the departure of Adley Rutschman and have a tough discussion about the Orioles here-and-now with fans and how this next eight weeks leads to a lot of uncertainty in Baltimore and all around the industry of baseball.

How to teach a six-year old about baseball while watching the 2026 Orioles play…

Baltimore Positive

We’re all watching the Baltimore Orioles and trying to figure out the salary cap, labor and the trade machinations of Mike Elias. Meanwhile, our pal Zach Dermer is just trying to introduce his kids to the game. Our HVAC and plumbing friend at The Comfort Guys joins Nestor at Costas Timonium on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to talk Birdland summer problems and the rules of the game.

Let’s get the facts about this Preakness and Triple Crown fiasco from the top down

Baltimore Positive

After witnessing and opining on the entire state of horse racing and the sport in Maryland over the past 35 years on the radio regarding its complete deterioration, Nestor Aparicio only really trusts one voice about the sport of kings: Dick Jerardi. His one time colleague in 1984 has gone off to Philadelphia to become one of the legendary horse racing insiders in the sport and attempts to calm his now-much-older-and-more-cynical friend down about very rational Preakness and Triple Crown concerns as Pimlico goes to war with Churchill and Belmont, and NBC and Fox square off and Wes Moore is holding press conferences. Get the truth here…

Did our American World Cup runneth over with riches for FIFA?

Baltimore Positive

The World Cup came to the United States of America for the first time in 32 years this summer. Sports business professor Marty Conway tells Nestor, it won’t be that long before the world’s biggest sports tournament returns to our shores. And, of course, Professor Conway brings the heat for MLB as the labor wars start to heat up in a familiar refrain of billionaires vs. millionaires with the fans paying the freight.

elias

Orioles reinforce tone deaf approach to fans with Rutschman Black Monday 2026 selloff

Baltimore Positive

Did the Baltimore Orioles throw in the towel on the 2026 season on Monday? Probably. But as Luke Jones and Nestor point out, this current project of Mike Elias isn’t working at any level and the haul for Adley Rutschman plus the other deals with Dean Kremer, Taylor Ward and Tyler Wells have certainly disgusted what’s left the of Orioles fan base. Another selloff; different ownership. Does anyone know what they’re doing at The Warehouse?

Understanding the upcoming MLB labor war and history of billionaires vs. millionaires

Baltimore Positive

No one will be covering the battle after the World Series quite like Evan Drellich of The Athletic, who gives a full primer and overview of the upcoming MLB labor war with the MLBPA and the Orioles’ role in the battle of billionaires vs. millionaires that many expect to greatly impact the business of baseball immediately following the season, if not already in some markets.

Stretching back with a chiropractic conversation of care for a lifetime

Baltimore Positive

For the 28th anniversary of WNST as an AM radio behemoth here in Baltimore and returning from the Home Run Derby, Nestor welcomes back, back, back his neighbor and chiropractor Dr. Steve Elliott to Pizza John’s in Essex on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to discuss spines and necks and great chiropractic health in Towson with Nestor.

Philly vs. Bmore: Fighting from a city of brotherly love when the Phanatic passion migrates through sports history

Baltimore Positive

The rich history but lack of any real rivalry between Philadelphia and Baltimore continues this week as the Phillies bring their fan base and passion to Camden Yards and will fill the Inner Harbor with tourist dollars in visiting the Orioles. Fresh back from two days at the All Star Game in Philaldelphia, Nestor welcomes old sports executive pal and Baltimore native Micah Buchdahl back to test the waters of Charm City sports history and a Camden Yards visit with friends and family colliding in his twisted fate of professional sports. This guy once roomed with Charlie Eckman on the road and ran an indoor soccer franchise in the MISL…

Dear Catie Griggs: Tell us more about who this “fan experience” is designed for at Camden Yards?

Nestor Aparicio

Two months ago, you shook my hand all doe-eyed, took my Baltimore Positive business card at a local networking function that I actively participate in with a great group of community folks monthly, somehow believably feigned that “we’d be in touch” – I took you at your word – and then your bush league team sent along ridiculously insincere replies (or none at all) and your mostly unprofessional Lieutenants have all lined up to pretend that I don’t exist or that my questions on behalf of your fans are somehow irrelevant. I’m here holding a mirror up for you. That’s my role. You hold the power; I hold it accountable. Always…

The dream of an ice cream playground in Seven Valleys

Baltimore Positive

Our webmaster and activist extraordinaire Jessica Valis joined Nestor at Pizza John’s in Essex on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to discuss the history of Baltimore ice cream and its roots in her community just over the line in Southern Pennsylvania, where she’s leading an effort to build an ice cream playground for the kids in her hometown of tremendous delicious tradition from the farms to locals’ bellies. I scream, you scream…

Kenny Cooper on the agony of England defeat and importance of American soccer emergence during this World Cup

Baltimore Positive

We hoped to have legendary Blast Hall of Fame head coach Kenny Cooper on right after England won its way into the World Cup final but Lionel Messi and one of the greatest victories in recent memory turned this conversation into a beautifully wistful journey from when he arrived and what the game of soccer has become in the United States of America since those glorious days at the Baltimore Civic Center. And did you know that Coops once played on a team with Pele for three weeks?

#ColumnNes I’ve seen enough: It’s time to fire Mike Elias

Nestor Aparicio

I know, I know. The MLB Draft is coming. It’s midseason. There are big deadline deals that will need to be made in July. Blah, blah, blah. Plenty of reasons to just let Mike Elias stay warm in his rented seat and not rock the franchise boat. But I’ve seen enough to know he’s not going to survive – and shouldn’t – so I would make the move now and adjust.

Karson Kamenetz brings his family history and campaign message to District 4 in Baltimore County

Baltimore Positive

His father Kevin served as Baltimore County Executive and was on the campaign trail with an attempt to become Governor of Maryland when he tragically died in 2018, so it’s not a huge surprise that youthful Karson Kamenetz would be dipping his toes into the political realm with a run at the county council seat at stake in the 4th District on the northwest side of the beltway. We discuss what is important to contituents in our area right now like traffic, crime and affordability. And the power and expectations of his family name.

Ivan Bates: On law, order, people, process and prosecution in Baltimore City

Baltimore Positive

Are the streets of Baltimore City safer than they were a decade ago? Peace and progress in our city continues to be a daily effort for Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates, who joins Nestor at Faidley’s at Lexington Market to discuss youth crime, accountability and the challenges of the juvenile system while getting the repeat offenders off the street to make the city safer.

Dyer discusses Baltimore County Executive job and campaign

Baltimore Positive

Republican candidate for Baltimore County Executive Patrick Dyer tells Nestor why he’s running for Baltimore County Executive at Costas Inn at Timonium Racetrack on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour as we prepare for state wide primary elections on June 23rd here in Maryland.

Finding the summer yoga groove to bend and shift with those new business challenges ahead

Baltimore Positive

By day, Cate Paris is the Accelerent Regional Vice President, moving business development, networking and relationships forward but she’s been moonlighting on the internet recently with @CateDoesYoga on Instagram and brought her bendy mojo tips to Nestor at Sorrento of Arbutus as infinite flexibility continues to be the goal of the Maryland Crab Cake Tour and Baltimore Positive. We bend so we don’t break…

And suddenly, it’s go time for America and a real World Cup

Baltimore Positive

We couldn’t think of any more immersed guest to bring us the full scope of the pending World Cup in North America than lifer soccer insider Steven Goff of Yahoo, who joins Nestor on eve of Copa Mundial with the good, bad and hideous of the FIFA thugs coming to your town and putting on the greatest sports spectacle and tournament on earth.

Dear John Harbaugh: The long fraud of your goodbye and $oft landing in The Big Apple

Nestor Aparicio

I’ve blessed myself with 60 days to give your rather abrupt departure here some time to fully decant – like a hair-raising, pellet gun plum Ravens vintage – and smelling that musty, stale aroma and a hint of that rancid taste in the mouth you get when someone leaves town wearing a smile that doesn’t quite match the damage they did on the way out. “What do you want me to tell the other humans I know when they ask me about you?”

What took Nestor so long to get to Arbutus?

Baltimore Positive

Our friend, sponsor and consigliere Bill Cole of Cole Roofing considers the Sorrento of Arbutus cheesesteak and crinkle cut fries a legitimate food group in his locally-based business so when Nestor got the invite to do the Maryland Crab Cake Tour near his Worldwide HQ in Southwest Baltimore, this one got tasty and spicy. But, shrimp on a cheesesteak? What’s going on over there…

The life and legacy of Natasha Guynes and HER Resiliency

Baltimore Positive

In the aftermath of an unspeakable tragedy within the charity and community space in Baltimore, our pal Andy Kobus of United Rentals joins Nestor to discuss HER Resiliency legacy and difficulty of the tragic loss of founder and sexual assault survivor Natasha Guynes and its impact on her mission.

Can the Angry Birds live to fight another day in this pennant race against Toronto Luke Sept 13

The slow heating and fast cooling of Orioles bats has thrown us a summer chill

Baltimore Positive

Our guy Zach Dermer of The Comfort Guys has been Birdwatching along with every other baseball fan in the area as the Baltimore Orioles continue to disappoint on the field as they play late into the night on the West Coast. When will Gunnar Henderson burn as hot as your HVAC unit on a summer scorcher? Time to pitch in some orange therapy for all of us…

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